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Frankenstein's Lab
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Published: 2013-11-21 18:27:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 38985; Favourites: 1231; Downloads: 313
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College homework
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Comments: 171
Your Gallery is so Impressive! Thanks for the llama badge!Β
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You're welcome and thanks for your words!
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It is my pleasure to feature this amazing artwork in my journal "New Feature 2014" cemac.deviantart.com
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Nice! Makes me wonder if I took the right major if this is your homework... Great job with the entire composition! Colors are great and the quality is exceptional throughout!
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Yeah, so far this is the work I invested most time and thought in with a lot of back and forth with a great teacher
What major did you take? I'm only doing a concept design course that is 14 months long but is pretty intense if you make it so.
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Its so worth it! I took Architectural Design. (thanks for the llama by the way!)
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Thanks! It pays off to invest time and thought into your works but I find it hard to do just yet on a consistent basis. Really prefer the easy way of speedpaints, but those days will be over soon enough.
Architectural Design? The full fledged degree, 5 years worth of it? If so, wow, I bow before you
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6 years total to get my masters haha
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Oh jeez! I was never so dedicated to anything, I applaud you and bow before you as I said
I'm only doing this art thing seriously for 2.5 years, but it's going strong and I'm not stopping.
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this is more than comic book worthy. very nice.
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Thanks for the comment, one day these skill will make something like a comic book but with a more personal style and my own narration
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Dude, this is pretty freakin awesome. I love doing character design and always have trouble with backgrounds. This just may get me to start doing more backgrounds.
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Backgrounds are awesome, support your other skills as well. It'll boost the appeal of your drawings to practice drawing backgrounds.
Thank you for the comment too
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Grabbed my attention right away! I love the use of light and shadow in this one, and the way the blood spatter on the floor plays into both elements.
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Thanks! Glad somebody noticed that splatter
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Creepy. Maybe a little too clean, especially the walls... Maybe stone blocks or old bricks would be more in theme than plaster (concrete?)? But i like it anyway
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Thanks! The right amount of creepiness is still not there. Not going to dwell on this anymore, one must move to create newer stuff. However, thanks for the comment since they're applicable to future works as well
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Thank you so much!
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You are welcome i hope check the works
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Thats an absolutely lovely artwork, very beautiful!
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so much fun and classically Franky!Β
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Haha, thank you for the comment!
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Cool! I love all the details and the atmosphere, good job on perspective too!
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Thanks! Interior perspective is hard to handle and I thank you for appreciating the labor invested
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Yeah, I know
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I managed to screw it a bit during this work too, another 3 hours were invested in fixing it
TIP: Layers are freaking useful in saving time.
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Haha, that's me. Sometimes more sometimes less
I just use the lasso a lot to move things around and it's hard to do so when so many things are on separate layers. Boo!
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Yeah, I know XD I'm using SAI for painting, and it's awesome blending options and water tools work only on 1 layer. Besides - I just can't be accurate with many layers - I'm loosing track of myself and confusing layers, it screws with my painting flow, getting me annoyed, so I end up on one layer sooner or later.. But I'm keeping some progress files - just in case
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It's good to keep up the work flowing, too many layers and I'm brain dead as to what those layers do. Sometimes I'd have layers with nothing on them. It'd be strange indeed.
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yeah, and I tend to confuse layers and paint on the wrong one (then getting mad on myself XD)
Β God, with that last comic page SAI has crashed on me for the first time. I've lost Chase, exactly when I've decided that he's done (about couple of hours of work >_<) I've almost cried there. Repainted him aggressively in half a hour (maybe less) but it was a nightmare.
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Can't go wrong with this color scheme!Β EverythingΒ is so clean and yet..well not because it's a creepy lab. XD
I love that window. Your attention to detail, populating the space with props and stuff is to be admired. That's my biggestΒ hang-upΒ doing interiors.Β
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Not creepy enough though, that's the critique I got. Plus the ovals aren't exactly on spot (apparently not good at drawing so many of them and drawing them accurately).Β
Don't let this intimidate you, and don't be afraid to use references to study objects of interest. I googled for ancient looking lightbulbs and props from the old frankenstein movies to see how they presented the creepy lab technology of that time. I learned a lot and made hybrids of ideas that already existed without copying them directly, it's a way to study the material and fill your visual library with more diverse content.Β
Anyway, don't be afraid of research !
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Haha I tend to get lost inΒ research! It's too much fun.
Yeah I don't fear or stigmatize referencing at all. I think it's just one of those things that I need to dive in head first with like I did the landscape stuff this time last year XD I can't fear sucking! Sucking at something is the first step to being sort of good at something after all! Once I get the time, I'll definitely sit down and do more than basic interior doodles. My biggest issue is proportion! I need to work on that most of all when it comes to man-made spaces.
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Hahaha, good attitude right there. I sucked at landscape nearly a year ago, now, i'm sort of okay with those lol. More studies to be done!
I hate to do this, but I think that in order to become professionals, truly professionals, we need a healthy work process(es) that serve us well. Otherwise, we'll be trapped in counting too much on luck and mood.
I try to define myself times for everything. 1-2 hours for research and then stop. It's still hard to maintain that because I'm not used to clocking myself.
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Never thought I'd ever say this, but: Hooray for homework!!
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Haha! Never thought homework could be so engaging, it's been a while since I'd done some homework for anything!
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